Albania Oct 2025

Flew direct Edi - Tiranha in 3.5 hours. Mon-Friday or Monday to Monday were the options - I chose a short 5 day trip so I had the weekend to recover and get ready for a busy week.

As the trip was pretty last minute bike hire options were limited and I did well to grab a T7 Tenere which very conveniently was waiting for me at the terminal on arrival.

After a quick currency exchange I was on the bike and on my way.

By Mid day on Monday I was on some relatively decent major roads and headed South along the coast and then forked off up into the mountains and found some amazing single track and some pretty gnarly off road options before rolling into my first nights accommodation.

€40 for a hotel for the night including breakfast and it was pretty incredible - totally secluded spot nestled up in the hills, with a pool and insane views all around, not bad !

As its the very end of the season everything was either closed or quiet - in this case there was only one other couple in the hotel so there was more staff than customers!

Tuesday I continued through the mountains heading South and then away out to the Coast for a look at Corfu - and then circled back up along the coast into my accommodation for the next 3 nights in Dhermi.

Tues Eve and all day Wednesday was mostly meetings / eating & walking locations - The Albanians know how to host and certainly know how to cook. Coffee is also on a par with Italy so many expresso’s were consumed in a very social and enjoyable couple of days.

Weather for Thursday looked rotten which put a bit of a cog in the works - I’ve no issue riding in rain and I’d brought all my own riding gear from Scotland so I was ready for it, but the bike hire company and some other motorcyclists I’d run into had all warned that big mountain passes and bad weather essentially translates to riding in clouds alls day

To be continued……